Many daring vacationers who participate in guided boat tours on the Tarcoles River encounter native crocodiles lurking in the shallows, whose eyes and noses are peeking out from the surface of the murky water.
a.encounter native crocodiles lurking in the shallows, whose eyes and noses are peeking out
b.encountered native crocodiles lurking in the shallows, whose eyes and noses peek out
c.had encountered native crocodiles lurking in the shallows, whose eyes and noses peek out
d.encounter native crocodiles lurking in the shallows, with eyes and noses peeking out
e.encounter native crocodiles lurking in the shallows, with eyes and noses that are peeking out
I picked A only because I thought "comma+whose" works just as "comma+which" does ..so just like how comma+which modifies the most eligible noun and not necessarily the one right before the comma..i thought,in this case too comma+whose can modify either corcodiles or shallows..am i wrong? experts please clarify. thanks.
OA is D
a.encounter native crocodiles lurking in the shallows, whose eyes and noses are peeking out
b.encountered native crocodiles lurking in the shallows, whose eyes and noses peek out
c.had encountered native crocodiles lurking in the shallows, whose eyes and noses peek out
d.encounter native crocodiles lurking in the shallows, with eyes and noses peeking out
e.encounter native crocodiles lurking in the shallows, with eyes and noses that are peeking out
I picked A only because I thought "comma+whose" works just as "comma+which" does ..so just like how comma+which modifies the most eligible noun and not necessarily the one right before the comma..i thought,in this case too comma+whose can modify either corcodiles or shallows..am i wrong? experts please clarify. thanks.
OA is D
